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• 27 Sep 2024

  28 Sep 2024

  Montpellier

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Breaking New Grounds: Democratising Gardens and Gardening in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries

  This conference stems from a reflection on the social and political dimensions of gardens and gardening in Great Britain ranging from the Victorian and Edwardian eras to the post-war period. Pondering on “People’s Gardens,” Vita Sackville-West claimed that “we have been called a nation of shopkeepers; we might with equal justice be called a nation of gardeners” (Sackville-West 1939). Her assertion insists on a sense of community, portraying gardening as an inclusive affair spreading across the country to amateurs along professionals who undertook training in botany and horticulture. Yet, such inclusivity needs to be qualified and addressed, taking into consideration class and gender: how was gardening dependent on class in Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries? How did class condition gardening practices? How did men and women’s experiences of gardening or access to gardens differ?

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• 12 Nov 2018

  Nanterre

  Call for papers - Europe

  English journeys past and present, explorations of the condition of England

  The conference will address the following hypothesis: the illustration of a certain  way of being English, of a specific English way of inhabiting and making sense of the world, were given definition and cultural force through a series of writings which record the impressions of things seen in the course of a journey dedicated to the exploration of a territory, whether the land of England  in its national extension or the more local territory of a particular community. The organizers are calling for papers which will examine a corpus of writing  proposing a first-person observations of a condition of England at various moments in the history of a territory. 

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• 08 Dec 2008

  Rennes

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Rock britannique et chronique sociale

  Journée d'étude, Université Rennes 2, 27 Mars 2009

  Le laboratoire de Civilisation britannique (ACB), au sein de l’équipe ACE (EA 1796) de l’Université Rennes 2, organise le 27 mars 2009 une journée d’étude intitulée « Rock britannique et chronique sociale ». Les propositions de communication d’une dizaine de lignes ainsi que le détail des coordonnées institutionnelles (titre, institution, adresse électronique) sont à envoyer à la fois à Claire Charlot (claire.charlot@univ-rennes2.fr) et Guillaume Clément (guillaume.clement@univ-rennes2.fr) avant le 8 décembre 2008. Une réponse sera donnée avant le 20 décembre 2008. Seuls les frais de repas du midi seront pris en charge.

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• 14 Jun 2007

  Paris

  Seminar - Sociology

  Sport et société en Grande Bretagne

  Intervention de Claude Boli au Redesp

  Souvent négligée par les spécialistes français de la Grande Bretagne, l'histoire sociale du sport, et en particulier du football, permet à Claude Boli de revisiter la construction de la société britannique au XXème siècle, notamment sous l'angle de l'immigration.

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